.256 Mannlicher Schoenauer (a.k.a. 6.5 Greek)
From Earnest Hemingway's "Islands in the Stream" published around 1922:
"As Thomas Hudson reached for the rifle it was chunky and
heavy in its clipped sheep-wool-lined case that he kept satu-
rated with Fiend-oil to keep the sea air from rusting it. He
pulled it out by the butt and slid the case under the decking
on the flying bridge. It was a .256 Mannlicher Shoenauer with
the old eighteen-inch barrel they weren’t allowed to sell any
more. The stock and forearm were browned like a walnut nut-
meat with oil and rubbing, and the barrel, rubbed firom
months of carrying in a saddle bucket, was oil-slick, without a
spot of rust The cheek piece of the stock was worn smooth
from his own cheek and when he pulled back the bolt the re-
volving magazine was full of heavy bellied cartridges with the
long, thin, pencil-shaped meal-cased bullet with only a tiny ex-
posed lead tip.
"It was really too good a gun to keep on a boat but Thomas
Hudson was so fond of it and it reminded him of so many
things, so many people, and so many places that he liked to
have it with him and he had found that, in the sheepskin case,
once the clipped wool was well impregnated with the Fiend-
oil, the rifle was not harmed at all by the salt air. A gun is to
shoot anyway, he thought, not to be preserved in a case, and
this was a really good rifle, easy to shoot, easy to teach anyone
to shoot with, and handy on the boat. He had always had more
confidence shooting it, as to being able to place his shots at
close and moderate range, than any other rifle he had ever
owned and it made him happy to pull it out of the now
and pull back the bolt and shove a shell into the breech."
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